The contents of this directory include all materials necessary to replicate the results in Carter, Wright, and Ying’s “Population Displacement and State-Building: The Legacies of Pashtun Resettlement in Afghanistan.”

The directory contains three main folders:
	•	data — contains the data used in the empirical analyses.
	•	code — contains the code required to replicate the results in the article and supplementary appendix.
	•	map — contains the map project used to generate the maps presented in the paper.

Some tables are exported to the results folder for display, while others appear directly in the Stata console.

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** Combat Activity Data **
The military records used in the main analysis were retrieved from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Significant Activities (SIGACTS) database. These data were jointly collected by Afghanistan’s military and police forces and multinational forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). This data includes information on combat activity and civilian collaboration, as described in the manuscript. The data were secured through a formal declassification process by Shaver andWright (2016), initiated as a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the U.S. Central Command.
Shaver, A., & Wright, A. (2016). Data on Combatant Activity during Afghanistan War Advance Scientific Investigation of Insurgency. University of Chicago. Download link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qctucbxhaqkpwz8w46com/ShaverWright2016.pdf?rlkey=egip0ugc7fiwspw6uj2lxktx1&dl=1.
Note regarding access: The Taliban has been attempting to identify and neutralize individuals that have collaborated with foreign forces over the last twenty years. Public release of information on civilian collaboration, especially at the level of granularity used in our analysis, has the potential to cause unintended harm to subjects in the field. We direct researchers interested in these data to contact Wright (austinlw@uchicago.edu) to engage in a vetting process for possible use, governed by a use agreement.

** Survey Data **The individual level and aggregated FOGHORN and ANQAR survey data are restricted access only. The authors established access through a data agreement with the organization that maintains the data, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s Communications and Information Agency. Access to FOGHORN—which was administered by the U.S. Department of Defense—was facilitated by NATO CIA staff. 

Note regarding access: The offices that maintain these data, however, are not accepting requests for data releases at this time. Interested researchers can contact Wright for more information about the authorization process. Wright, wherever reasonable, will help facilitate the process.

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Because of these restrictions, we have removed the the following data files from this replication package after the journal’s in-house replication process. All code files are retained.
-data/input/ANQAR_sampling.dta-data/input/FOGHORN_sampling.dta-data/input/FOGHORN.dta-data/input/SIGACTS.dta

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R version: 4.2.1 (2022-06-23)
Stata version: 18.5
ArcGIS Pro 3.5
